The carpenter's new guide; a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery, treating fully on practical geometry, soffits, groins, niches, roofs, and domes, and containing a great variety of original designs. Also a full exemplification of the theory and practice of stair building, cornices, mouldings, and dressings of every description. Including also some observations and calculations on the strength of timber (1854)
HAND-RAILING. 87 PLATE 71. To form the Line of Noseings of the Stejps of a semicircular Winding Stair-case, into a regularCurve of contrary Flexure ; thence to find the Plan of the Steps, the Form of the String,and the Rail stretched out. Let ABODE, Fig. 1, be a part of the rail, b c d the…
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